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A concise glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian and Gothic architecture, illustrated by four hundred and forty woodcuts (1846)

Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884 · Oxford: J. H. Parker · leaf 52

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40 EOSS BOAVTELL. are generally elaborately carved. Early English bosses … a carved boss. In the Chapter-house, Oxford Cathedral. Decorated style the bosses usually consist of foliage, heads, animals, &c., or of foliage combined with heads and animals, and sometimes shields charged with armorial bearings are used. Many of the Perpendicular bosses bear a strong resemblance…

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